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Title: Hawthorn Tree and Kansas City, Missouri Skyline
Description: A color glass plate positive photograph of a hawtorn (crataegus) tree in bloom in the north central section of Penn Valley Park. This vantage point faces north towards downtown Kansas City, Missouri and shows Liberty Memorial in the right background.
Date: 1941-04-29
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Massasoit
Description: View looking east of the Massasoit statue on the southeast corner of Main Street, Brookside Boulevard, and 47th Street.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #04
Description: Architectural detail of the Liberty Memorial design proposal from the New York-based Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded fourth place by the 1921 memorial jury. This detail depicts the sculpture of an imposing female figure, engraved with SPQR and a variety of scenes, set into the proposed central tower - the figure would not be visible to viewers at Union Station.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #21
Description: Three views of the Liberty Memorial design proposal from the New York-based Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded fourth place by the 1921 memorial jury. The views depict the imposing female figure set into the proposed central tower and how the figure would not be visible to viewers at Union Station.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 'Wagon Master' Gift of Nichols Family
Description: Short article describing the statue on Ward Parkway near Wornall Road, of a wagon train traveler, donated by the Nichols family.
Date: 1973-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Liberty Memorial
Description: Describes the changes that would occur to the Liberty Memorial if proposed redesigns take place.
Date: 2000
Object Type: Magazine